i don't know what i want but i know i want it now

I am thinking about this exhibition business a lot recently. As part of the curatorial gang, it has been really interesting to look at everyone else’s work and consider how we’re going to present it. We’ve been categorizing everyone conceptually; this has proven to be really difficult because we’re such varied group with a massive range of ideas and motives, so the categories are really loose just to think whose work would fit together.

Although a key concept in my work is the rejection of the gallery space and the interaction with an unknown audience, I do feel like I would like to be involved in dNA in my own little way. But how can I present the unpresentable? I’ve been looking at the work of Martin Creed recently, his work is so funny, he basically mocks gallery traditions, his work is concerned with the line between something and nothing. Really just questioning what exactly an art piece can consist of, he subtley intervenes with the gallery space...

Work No. 121: A crumpled ball of paper in every room in a house
1995
A4 paper
Installation at the Swiss Institute, New York

Work No. 270: The Lights Off

2001

Ok, so I need to consider what would be appropriate to put in the show and how I can present it so that it retains and enforces my ideas. Something very subtle that has very little presence in the show, a slight intervention, an implication that somewhere, out there, I do exist...